INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- It is expected that this year a total of 440 tons of honey will be harvested in Yazd province, some of which will be used inside the
province and a large part will be sent to other regions of the country, an official with the Agriculture Department of the province
natural honey from 876,000 colonies in different regions of the province has started and continues for two months.Last month, the managing
director of the beekeeping industry development support fund said this fund provides 170 billion rials (about $440,760) of low-interest
facilities to beekeepers with the aim of helping the country's beekeeping industry.Based on the data released by the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Iran is the third-largest producer of honey in the world.The chairman of the Animal Science Research
Institute has said that the amount of honey production in the country should be increased by three to four kilograms per colony.Mokhtar
kilograms of royal jelly, 406 tons of pollen, 2,536 tons of beeswax, 247 tons of propolis, and 3,917 grams of bee venom are produced
annually in the country.MA
